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Cloud Computing

  • Australia: Public sector agencies must assess cloud option

    Public sector agencies need to urgently coordinate and integrate their various egovernment functions through cloud computing, according to a recent report.

    According to IDC Government Insights public sector organisations in the Asia Pacific region faced renewed financial pressures because of the global financial crisis and an increased demand for service delivery.

    The report Looking Ahead: Articulating Cloud Competencies for the Asia/Pacific Public Sector highlights trends and concerns regarding the adoption of cloud computing in the public sector.

  • Australian Government Commits to Cloud Computing

    Innovation Council Touts Cloud as Hyper-Aggressive NBN Moves Forward

    There is "a window of opportunity for Australia to be the the global leader in the creation and adoption of cloud computing innovation," according to a recent report from the federal government's IT Industry Innovation Council.

    Australia is rich in natural resources and one of the least densely populated countries in the world, which has allowed it citizens to build a wealthy economy and stable society without having to become a world-beating manufacturer or innovation center. Knowing that this economic model may not last forever, the Council's report says "there is a need to engender a sense of urgency and clear political leadership in this debate."

  • Australian ICT spending set to be boosted by big data, cloud computing, mobile and social computing

    Despite falls in spending on servers and desktop PCs, Australian business spending on ICT (information and communications technology) will continue to grow due to big data, cloud, mobile and social technologies, according to a leading market research firm.

    According to IDC, one of the large shifts will be away from bring your own device (BYOD) policies for employee smartphones and tablets in businesses, in favour of choose your own device (CYOD).

  • AZ: E-government switches to cloud technology

    Azerbaijani electronic government portal will now be available on the cloud, according to Deputy Minister of Communications and High Technologies Elmir Velizade.

    Velizade says Azerbaijan's main efforts are now focused on the use of modern technology so that the ICT sector could contribute to the development of the country in a short period.

  • Azerbaijan studies Belarus experience in building Government Cloud

    Azintelecom LLC of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies got thoroughly acquainted with the Belarus experience in building the Government Cloud (G-Cloud), the ministry said in a message on May 22.

    The ministry said that prospects for cooperation with Belarus on the G-Cloud project were discussed in Minsk within the framework of TIBO 2018 EXPO, held May 14-18.

  • Bahrain implements 'cloud first' policy for e-government

    Bahrain's Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) has implemented the 'Cloud First' policy, enabling system migration systems to the cloud following the best practices, while adhering to iGA's security standards and procedures. Bahrain was selected by Amazon to become the first regional centre for data in the Middle East and Africa regions. With such an announcement, the country is considered to have made another international accomplishment.

  • Bahrain is the First Country in the Region to Embrace Cloud!

    At the Amazon Web Services Summit, Mohamed Al AlQaed, the CEO of the Bahrain’s Information and eGovernment Authority (iGA), announced the launch of the ”Cloud First” policy, allowing migrating systems to cloud following the best practices while preserving the iGA’s high-security standards.

    AlQaed also commented that the Kingdom is among the leading countries in the Middle East to adopt the cloud policy in the public sector. According to him, it would lead to a wide range of high-paying jobs in both the public and the private sectors. Many government agencies have already started transferring their data to the cloud, he added.

  • Bahrain migrates 10 govt websites to cloud

    Bahrain’s Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) will begin the migration of ten government websites as a trial of Cloud Computing - developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The trial is intended to complete full migration during one year. This follows an agreement with technology investment firm C5 Capital.

    The websites are those of the Ministry of Justice & Islamic Affairs, Ministry of Health, Central Bank of Bahrain, National Oil & Gas Authority, Survey & Land Registration Bureau, Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning, Ministry of Transportations & Telecommunication, Public Prosecution; Capital Governorate and the Northern Area Municipality.

  • BF: G-Cloud project launches in Burkina Faso

    Alcatel-Lucent is to provide the government of Burkina Faso with cloud networking technology that will enable it to develop new digital public services, such as E-government, E-learning and E-health.

    Alcatel-Lucent will supply the West African nation with its NFV (Network Functions Virtualization), Cloudband and IP platforms, which will be integrated into the ‘G-Cloud’ infrastructure to being built around virtualized network resources from cloud nodes in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s capital, and five provinces.

  • Building the Government Platform for the Future

    Cloud has become part of state and local governments’ underlying IT infrastructure, enabling departments and agencies to secure, integrate and analyze data in powerful new ways. A majority report more than half of their current systems and applications can be migrated to cloud environments, and many have — or plan to — move mission-critical applications as well.

    As the cloud’s underlying technologies mature and governments continue migration efforts, the platform of the future is coming into focus, promising the ability to leverage data in new ways to deliver predictive insights and impactful results.

  • CA: ‘Real Me’ as-a-Service: Cloud Privacy by Design for E-Health

    Naturally one of the critical areas specified in the Canadian E-Health Cloud strategy document is the risks related to data privacy.

    Specifically in section 8, from page 42 through 49, they describe the comprehensive standards, audit and certification frameworks that will be required to protect this next major phase of Cloud adoption.

    CHI point to the number one risk issue cited by CIOs – Fears of inadequate data privacy protections, and they describe the various component parts what is required to address these risks including due diligence procedures and state of the art privacy controls.

  • CA: Best practices in Shared Service Cloud design

    In addition to IT cost efficiencies, organizations should look for further benefits from their Cloud investments.

    Most notably they should align with and support major change programs like ‘Shared Services Canada‘.

    This imperative to drive hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings will set out to transform the organization in line with this diagram – Shifting them right from decentralized in to the Shared Services sweet spot.

  • CA: Federal Government Cloud – Innovation Nation Supercomputer

    One of the headline ‘R&D Working Groups‘ we’re starting up as part of our Canadian Cloud Best Practices program is ‘Federal Government Cloud’.

    As the name suggests this is a best practices program that will define how a Federal Government can implement a Cloud Computing strategy. This will act as a unifying project, we’ll be basing this on Canadian activities and it will also be the headline theme for the launch of our USA Chapter too.

    The critical point this program will define is the role this platform can play in stimulating the economy and driving economic growth.

  • CA: Take two apps and call me in the morning

    I have been especially excited about the recent Canada Health Infoway Cloud strategy document, because I understand their importance in the overall “supply chain” of Canadian e-Health technologies like EHR – Electronic Healthcare Records, and what large scale challenges this particular sector faces.

    This scale and these challenges has been very effectively discussed in this feature article from the Globe’s latest Report on Business supplement – Take Two Apps and Call Me in the Morning.

  • Canada govt cautious on G-Cloud

    Jirka Danek, the Public Works & Government Services Canada’s Chief Technology Officer, has identified security and privacy as the two biggest hurdles for government cloud computing. Speaking at the Government Cloud Forum this week (Wednesday 15th September), Danek said that Canada is taking cautious steps into the cloud.

    The Canadian government offers cloud-based services through a ‘Community Cloud’ to its 325,000 Federal employees and 140 departments, including a pension and payroll enterprise app and Web 2.0 collaboration tools.

  • Cashless: Central Bank of Nigeria, service providers in talks on cloud services

    The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it is talking with service providers to create cloud Wi-Fi hotspot services to facilitate seamless electronic payment (e-payment) services in the country.

    The initiative, which would be driven by banks, according to the CBN’s Head of Shared Services, Mr Chidi Umeano, would enable customers access e-payment services in areas where the over 60,000 activated Point of Sale (PoS) terminals are clustered.

  • China reaches for the cloud with new data center opening

    Plans cloud future of storm proportions

    Shanghai opened its first cloud-enabled data center – Shanghai AtHub - as part of its Cloud Scheme, to be run by AtHub (@Hub) Corporation at the Shanghai SHIBEI Hi-Tech Park.

    The opening is part of a broader effort by China to turn itself into the “Asia-Pacific cloud computing center”, according to the Shanghai Municipal Government.

    China is planning to create 10 cloud computing enterprises with annual income for more than 100 million yuan to match the most influential providers in the market in three years, according to a report in the People’s Daily Online this week.

  • China: Hong Kong govt puts cloud to the test

    Hong Kong’s Office of the Government Chief Information Officer has said that while cloud computing could have “profound implications” for how government procures IT, “major issues” stand in the way of adoption.

    “We see the cloud computing model as a major trend in the industry,” Hong Kong’s Deputy GCIO Stephen Mak told FutureGov. “Government is aware of this trend and has been weighing up the opportunities and challenges.”

    “Depending on the business model, charging mechanism, contractual commitments and interoperability standards, there could be profound implications for how we procure IT products and services.”

  • China’s smart cities: 4 areas where AI, the IoT, big data and cloud computing are making a difference

    • Connected networks of sensors and communication devices make management of resources and services more efficient and effective
    • Cities are adopting advanced technologies and innovative approaches to urban planning and management

    At some new subway stations in Beijing, Guangzhou and a number of other Chinese cities, people no longer need to swipe a card or scan their phone to catch a train. The gate opens following a quick scan of their face, with the process taking less than two seconds.

  • Chinese municipality Jinan builds cloud-based e-government platform

    Jinan Muncipality in China is to develop an administrative cloud computing centre, making it the country’s first e-government cloud platform to be fully outsourced.

    Mayor Yang Luyu said that will the centre will help integrate administrative resources, strengthen fund management, improve government efficiency and information security. It is expected to shorten deployment cycles, more than double work efficiency and enable service standardisation.

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